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Enhancing Kiwi Bacterial Canker Leaf Assessment: Integrating Hyperspectral-based Vegetation Indexes in Predictive Modeling
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1  Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto (FCUP), Rua do Campo Alegre, Porto, 4169-007, Portugal
2  Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), Campus da Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, Porto, 4200-465, Portugal
3  CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal
4  BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal
Academic Editor: Nicole Jaffrezic-Renault

Abstract:

The potential of hyperspectral UV–VIS–NIR reflectance for in-field, non-destructive discrimination of bacterial canker on kiwi leaves caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae (Psa) was analyzed. Spectral data (325–1075 nm) of twenty kiwi plants were obtained in-vivo, in-situ, with a handheld spectroradiometer in two commercial kiwi orchards in northern Portugal, for 15 weeks, resulting in 504 spectral measurements. The suitability of different vegetation indexes (VIs) and applied predictive models (based on supervised machine learning algorithms) for classifying non-symptomatic and symptomatic kiwi leaves was evaluated. Eight distinct types of VIs were identified as relevant for disease diagnosis, highlighting the relevance of the Green, Red, Red-Edge, and NIR spectral features. The class prediction was achieved with good model metrics, achieving an accuracy of 0.71, kappa of 0.42, sensitivity of 0.67, specificity of 0.75, and F1 of 0.67. Thus, the present findings demonstrated the potential of hyperspectral UV–VIS–NIR reflectance for non-destructive discrimination of bacterial canker on kiwi leaves.

Keywords: Kiwi; Bacterial canker; Pseudomonas syringae; plant pathology; Optical sensing; In-field diagno-sis; vegetation index
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